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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    i don't remember much grinding much in pearl. though i do remember being under leveled for a lot of gyms. still managed to win though.

  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Rose, shut the hell up about my bedroom and save my game already!Registered User regular
    the rivals in bw are kinda dumb yeah

    but to be fair they've been on a downward slope from gen 3 onward

    best rival is still Blue/Gary

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    i don't remember much grinding much in pearl. though i do remember being under leveled for a lot of gyms. still managed to win though.

    i was extremely underlevelled throughout diamond, and when I met the elite four i hit a wall. i had to grind a lot just to even stand a chance, and even then i had to use a damned lvl 100 event arceus to beat it.

  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Rose, shut the hell up about my bedroom and save my game already!Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    i don't remember much grinding much in pearl. though i do remember being under leveled for a lot of gyms. still managed to win though.

    it's not so much it demands you to grind as it is there are really really long stretches of areas with wild pokemon

    so many fucking caves

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    the rivals in bw are kinda dumb yeah

    but to be fair they've been on a downward slope from gen 3 onward

    best rival is still Blue/Gary
    respectfully disagree

    far as I'm concerned, the best rival is ???

  • BugBoyBugBoy once a boy always a bugRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    BugBoy wrote: »
    anti

    black and white introduced a pokemon that has no other purpose than to give massive amounts of xp

    it is literally found in every area of the game

    literally never saw one outside of a trainer battle

    the grass never shook

    they're easy to find if you look a little bit

    although I think we disagreed on what grinding exactly means last time we discussed this

    that's probably the thing here

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  • BugBoyBugBoy once a boy always a bugRegistered User regular
    the thing about gen 4 is that the champ is really, really strong

    you can handle her with lower level stuff and lots of healing items, but if you want to go toe to toe with her you'll need to do a major grind

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  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    BugBoy wrote: »
    the thing about gen 4 is that the champ is really, really strong

    you can handle her with lower level stuff and lots of healing items, but if you want to go toe to toe with her you'll need to do a major grind

    by the time i even got to her, i had very little money. i couldn't buy many healing items at all.

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    Would anyone be interested in an article about what makes a good casual smartphone game

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Rose, shut the hell up about my bedroom and save my game already!Registered User regular
    Cynthia's team is fuckin' Smogon's Greatest Hits

  • BugBoyBugBoy once a boy always a bugRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    BugBoy wrote: »
    the thing about gen 4 is that the champ is really, really strong

    you can handle her with lower level stuff and lots of healing items, but if you want to go toe to toe with her you'll need to do a major grind

    by the time i even got to her, i had very little money. i couldn't buy many healing items at all.

    that would be a problem

    gen 4 definitely had a difficulty thing going on at the end

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  • Skull ManSkull Man Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    BugBoy wrote: »
    the thing about gen 4 is that the champ is really, really strong

    you can handle her with lower level stuff and lots of healing items, but if you want to go toe to toe with her you'll need to do a major grind

    by the time i even got to her, i had very little money. i couldn't buy many healing items at all.

    you fight and lose frequently against the elite four, using your earned money to buy healing items after each attempt so you won't lose it

    their pokemon are high level and trainer battles give double XP so you'll overcome them soon enough

    plus you learn how each of them operates and exactly how to fight them, what works and what doesn't

    they're supposed to be a challenge

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    honestly, you know what pokemon diamond and pokemon white taught me

    fuck leveling your team evenly, just use your starter all the time

    younger me was right

  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Brother of the Bug Registered User regular
    no!

    Leveling your team evenly is the best

    it is a pain to do, but it feels so good

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    honestly, you know what pokemon diamond and pokemon white taught me

    fuck leveling your team evenly, just use your starter all the time

    younger me was right

    unless your starter has a 4x weakness, then you fucked.

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    honestly, you know what pokemon diamond and pokemon white taught me

    fuck leveling your team evenly, just use your starter all the time

    younger me was right

    unless your starter has a 4x weakness, then you fucked.

    when you're level 100, you laugh in the face of everything in the main game

    but you know it's not like i play multiplayer because i always lose

  • Skull ManSkull Man Registered User regular
    leveling your team evenly isn't a pain! you just order them by level in ascending order, then order them by who has the least amount of XP left to level up

    that way you're pretty much always getting level ups and using different pokes and it's awesome

  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Quoth wrote: »
    Would anyone be interested in an article about what makes a good casual smartphone game

    yes

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I was on the SE++ facebook chat not a while back and people were talking about Pokemon

    I was like "is Pokemon still a thing? Really?"

    People did the facebook chat equivalent of slowly turning to stare at me

    I honestly did not know Pokemon was still a big deal

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    Skull Man wrote: »
    leveling your team evenly isn't a pain! you just order them by level in ascending order, then order them by who has the least amount of XP left to level up

    that way you're pretty much always getting level ups and using different pokes and it's awesome

    see, i tried doing this. i got murdered. often.

    so, fuck it. i'm never playing a new pokemon game again, but if i can get a copy of silver without a burnt out battery (i...played that game often) i'll just go ahead and make another lvl 100 Feraligatr.

  • Skull ManSkull Man Registered User regular
    anti what I'm getting from this is

    pokemon sucks because you are kind of terrible at it and don't have good wifi

    I'm sorry

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    black and white were actually incredible for leveling up a team at the same rate because they give you an experience share pretty early and also there is a thing now where lower leveled dudes get a higher share of the experience than higher leveled ones

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  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    Skull Man wrote: »
    anti what I'm getting from this is

    pokemon sucks because you are kind of terrible at it and don't have good wifi

    I'm sorry
    fuck yourself

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    i want you to find a pile of rusty nails to jump into

  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    hmm

    ladies and gents, if you've submitted articles to me and haven't heard back, please resubmit them to submissions@mediumdifficulty

    if you sent it to my personal one it didn't get tagged/forwarded to all the editorial staff

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    hmm

    ladies and gents, if you've submitted articles to me and haven't heard back, please resubmit them to submissions@mediumdifficulty

    if you sent it to my personal one it didn't get tagged/forwarded to all the editorial staff

    hrm. okay.

  • Skull ManSkull Man Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    anti what I'm getting from this is

    pokemon sucks because you are kind of terrible at it and don't have good wifi

    I'm sorry
    fuck yourself
    Spoiler:

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I am immediately disappointed they didn't pick a different group of generic antagonists and do a 2/too thing

    also i am interested in hear your suggestions for generic horde foes they could have used? zombies have been over done, goblins are basically orcs. kobolds, ogres, and such like are already in the game.

  • T4CTT4CT i'm pretty specific hi i am mikeRegistered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »
    in my view pokemon hasn't really stagnated because I don't really look at it as a single-player video game

    I think of it more like a TCG with sequels acting kind of like set expansions

    in that light the games actually make pretty significant advances every generation, the metagame gets thrown around pretty good with every release

    if anything the problem with that is that the single player gets in the way

    and I don't even mean in terms of the campaign, which is inoffensive enough

    it's just all the grindy bullshit makes it way more frustrating to put a team together than it should be

    on paper something like Pokemon Online seems like a perfect solution, but it's filled with obnoxious players and also something about it seems cold and impersonal

    like, as much as I hate spending two hours breeding and EV training a pokemon, investing all that time into it does something to make it feel like more than just a sprite with some associated numbers

    Speed, just so you know.

    You're one of the people who I'd want to interview.

    Because even if I don't necessarily agree with your stance on Pokemon, I think you do a really good job explaining your opinions.

    Stilts if I don't get interviewed I swear to goodness

  • Skull ManSkull Man Registered User regular
    hmm

    ladies and gents, if you've submitted articles to me and haven't heard back, please resubmit them to submissions@mediumdifficulty

    if you sent it to my personal one it didn't get tagged/forwarded to all the editorial staff

    sent

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I am immediately disappointed they didn't pick a different group of generic antagonists and do a 2/too thing

    also i am interested in hear your suggestions for generic horde foes they could have used? zombies have been over done, goblins are basically orcs. kobolds, ogres, and such like are already in the game.

    could do "monsters" and have draculas, mummies, wolfmen, etc.

    robots
    ninjas
    aliens
    bears

    elves

    etc.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I am immediately disappointed they didn't pick a different group of generic antagonists and do a 2/too thing

    also i am interested in hear your suggestions for generic horde foes they could have used? zombies have been over done, goblins are basically orcs. kobolds, ogres, and such like are already in the game.

    You have to fight a horde of orc ghosts.

    The ghosts of all the orcs you killed in the first game.

  • HunteraHuntera Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    Melding wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I am immediately disappointed they didn't pick a different group of generic antagonists and do a 2/too thing

    also i am interested in hear your suggestions for generic horde foes they could have used? zombies have been over done, goblins are basically orcs. kobolds, ogres, and such like are already in the game.

    could do "monsters" and have draculas, mummies, wolfmen, etc.

    robots
    ninjas
    aliens
    bears

    elves

    etc.

    Underworld, lovecraftian monsters seems like a good idea.

  • MorivethMoriveth Registered User regular
    Eh, my review doesn't need to be resubmitted

    Past the date of its relevance

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    Melding wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I am immediately disappointed they didn't pick a different group of generic antagonists and do a 2/too thing

    also i am interested in hear your suggestions for generic horde foes they could have used? zombies have been over done, goblins are basically orcs. kobolds, ogres, and such like are already in the game.

    could do "monsters" and have draculas, mummies, wolfmen, etc.

    robots
    ninjas
    aliens
    bears

    elves

    etc.

    man, all ninjas must die would be horrible. The round starts and then your neck explodes open, you loose.

    besides this actually takes place after the first one, which is weird they didn't really leave it open for a sequel, but here we are.

    I would buy an "All Draculas Must Die" however.

    fuck draculas.

  • Skull ManSkull Man Registered User regular
    anti I hate to tell you this but you didn't burn out the battery on silver

    the game has an always-on clock because it keeps track of the date and time

    those batteries were only made to last about seven years, overuse or no

  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    Skull Man wrote: »
    anti I hate to tell you this but you didn't burn out the battery on silver

    the game has an always-on clock because it keeps track of the date and time

    those batteries were only made to last about seven years, overuse or no

    pretty sure i did because my bro's copy of gold still works fine

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    T4CT wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    in my view pokemon hasn't really stagnated because I don't really look at it as a single-player video game

    I think of it more like a TCG with sequels acting kind of like set expansions

    in that light the games actually make pretty significant advances every generation, the metagame gets thrown around pretty good with every release

    if anything the problem with that is that the single player gets in the way

    and I don't even mean in terms of the campaign, which is inoffensive enough

    it's just all the grindy bullshit makes it way more frustrating to put a team together than it should be

    on paper something like Pokemon Online seems like a perfect solution, but it's filled with obnoxious players and also something about it seems cold and impersonal

    like, as much as I hate spending two hours breeding and EV training a pokemon, investing all that time into it does something to make it feel like more than just a sprite with some associated numbers

    Speed, just so you know.

    You're one of the people who I'd want to interview.

    Because even if I don't necessarily agree with your stance on Pokemon, I think you do a really good job explaining your opinions.

    Stilts if I don't get interviewed I swear to goodness

    Oh, you have Pokemon opinions too?

    I'll put you on the list with Speed and Dich.

    Also I really need to try and get one or two interviewees I know who aren't PA members.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter I love watching you. Let's play tag.Registered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »
    I'll put you on the list with Speed and Dich.
    :|
    PREPARE FOR EXTERMINATION

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Melding wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I am immediately disappointed they didn't pick a different group of generic antagonists and do a 2/too thing

    also i am interested in hear your suggestions for generic horde foes they could have used? zombies have been over done, goblins are basically orcs. kobolds, ogres, and such like are already in the game.

    You have to fight a horde of orc ghosts.

    The ghosts of all the orcs you killed in the first game.

    Alright, so the warmage now an old man tortured by the sins of the past or is he still insane in love with traps and shit and this is just a fun saturday for him?

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